Bishop Pfeifer: Pope Francis has 'a basic human kindness about him'

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People reach out to meet and photograph Pope Francis (bottom right) in the Gloria neighborhood as he makes his way to the archbishops’s palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week. Francis held a series of meetings and public noon prayer there.

Pope Francis waves as he arrives for the Stations of the Cross event on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last week.

Pope Francis, the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, passed the "first impressions" test with flying colors in the eyes of the bishop of the Diocese of San Angelo.